Posted by lil' jimi on January 14, 2006, at 1:10:46
In reply to Re: Can someone explain to me » caraher, posted by Gabbix2 on December 22, 2005, at 7:43:06
> >> I mentioned Burma because its people are under a military government that overthrew a previous democratic government - and thus would probably welcome a genuine liberation!
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>> I didn't get the feeling that L'il Jimi was questioning that at all. I thought his facetiouness was actually making the point being questioned in the thread. A genuine (emphasis on "genuine" ) humanitarian liberation doesn't appear to be on the priority list.
>>exactly ...
Thanks, Gabbi !i do pull for burma because it is a buddhist country.
... maybe not enough oil ...although, maybe enough natural gas?
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200601/200601120022.htmlalso see:
http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-acceptance.html
http://www.freeburmacoalition.org/
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-01-11-voa18.cfm
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bm.htmli do hope for the liberation of Burma.
it is just that, in general, i don't feel that military intervention should be our first option in our efforts toward world peace.i also find sightseeing Caribbean capitals inadequate justification for all out invasion, but that's just me.
i ache for the liberation of tibet from the chinese, too.
maybe i could make an exception for Tibet?
http://www.freetibet.org/
http://www.savetibet.org/tibet/index.php
http://www.tibet.com/
http://www.tibet.org/if only the Burmese could liberate themselves ...
... then they could invade and liberate Tibet for me! ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/30/wfinn30.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/12/30/ixworld.html
then again, war is ugly ...~ buddhist dreamer
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